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Prince William calls for greater action to stop the illegal wildlife trade

Earlier today, Tusk's Royal Patron HRH The Duke of Cambridge delivered a landmark speech in Yunnan Province, China, highlighting the illegal wildlife trade.  At the final session of a Regional Wildlife and Conservation Conference in Xishuangbanna, Prince William joined delegates from China and other Southeast Asian states. Reflecting on his visit, he spoke about the conservation initiatives that are developing in China, before then addressing the issue of the global illegal wildlife trade. 

Tusk Trust - Lewa Wildlife Conservancy

Lewa Wildlife Conservancy

The Lewa Wildlife Conservancy works as a model and catalyst for the conservation of wildlife and its habitat.

Tusk Trust - Lewa Lewa Wildlife Conservancy Community Programme Women's Microcredit © Amunga Eshuchi

Lewa Wildlife Conservancy Community Programme

The community programme is based on in-depth consultations with the rural population to secure their participation in the scheme and guarantee that tangible benefits of wildlife conservation reach the local people.

Tusk Trust - The Bateleurs Translocation of Lions

The Bateleurs – Flying for the Environment in Africa

The Bateleurs is a unique non-profit organisation of volunteer pilot members who give their aviation skills, the use of their privately-owned aircraft, and their time for free in support of conservation and the environment in Africa.

Tusk Trust - Botswana Predator Trust

Botswana Predator Conservation

Founded as the Botswana Wild Dog Research Project in 1989, Wild Entrust's Botswana Predator Conservation (BPC) is now one of the longest-running carnivore conservation programmes in Africa

Tusk Trust - Lilongwe

Lilongwe Wildlife Trust

Malawi is known for its friendly people and beautiful places but poverty, deforestation and wildlife crime have put the nation’s wildlife under immense pressure

Tusk Trust - Okapi Conservation

Okapi Conservation Project

The endangered okapi is the only other living member of the giraffe family, and survives only in the forests of war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Tusk Trust - Save the Rhino Trsut Rhino cow and calf Photo credit Dave Hamman Photography

Save the Rhino Trust

Northeast Namibia is home to the largest free-ranging black rhino population in the world.